SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – Notre Dame’s athletic director says there was an “extraordinary burst of wind” on the football field before he heard a tower crash to the ground, killing a student who was videotaping practice.
Jack Swarbrick talked to reporters on Thursday, a day after Declan (DEK-lahn) Sullivan died when the scissor lift he was on fell.
Swarbrick says the wind caused towels and a Gatorade cooler to fly in the air and the netting on the football goal post to bend.
He says he didn’t see the tower fall but heard a crash. He says the team and others responded to Sullivan, who was then taken by ambulance to a South Bend hospital. Swarbrick says he received a call from the ambulance that Sullivan was no longer breathing.
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